Femmes of Power: Exploding Queer Femininities - Softcover

Del LaGrace Volcano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1846686644 ISBN 13: 9781846686641

Publisher: Serpent's Tail, 2008

Synopsis

What is femme? French for woman? A feminine lesbian? A queer girl who loves to dress up? Think again! Going beyond identity politics and the pleasures of plumage, Femmes of Power captures a diverse range of queerly feminine subjects whose powerful and intentional redress explodes the meaning of femme for the 21st century.

Femmes of Power features both every-day heroines and many queer feminist icons, including Michelle Tea, Virginie Despentes, Amber Hollibaugh, Itziar Ziga, Lydia Lunch, Kate Bornstein and Valerie Mason-John.

Femmes of Power unsettles the objectifying 'male' gaze on femininity and presents femmes as speaking subjects and high-heeled theorists. Look closer - these powerful, sexy and sincerely ironic feminine figures are larger than life, bravely challenging femininity's negative connotations and replacing femme invisibility with a fresh new face for femme-inism.

About this title

About the Author

Del LaGrace Volcano is a photographer whose work has been exhibited and published widely across the UK, Europe and USA. Del is a gender variant visual artist, constantly seeking to abolish conventional notions of gender and cross the line as many times as it takes to build a bridge we can all walk across.

Edition details

• Publisher: Serpent's Tail
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1846686644
• ISBN 13: 9781846686641
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Number of pages: 192